Location: Hattie Mae White \n \nDepartment: Virtual Launchpad \n \nArea:District Wide \n \nContract Months:12 \n \nSalary Range: $90,000.00 \u2013 $140,000.00 \n \nAcademic Year: 25-26 \n \nPOSITION SUMMARY\n \nProvide instructional and operational leadership for the Virtual Launch Pad Program to ensure high-quality virtual learning experiences for high school students. Supports rigorous synchronous and asynchronous instruction, supervises staff, and promotes student success within designated courses, including CTE pathways. Oversees daily program operations, monitors student progress, and coordinates services to meet the needs of diverse learners, including those requiring specialized support. Collaborates with program leadership to maintain an effective virtual learning environment aligned to the goals of the Virtual Launch Pad Program.\n \nILLUSTRATIVE DUTIES\n \n1. Ensure high-quality instruction in all synchronous and asynchronous Virtual Launch Pad courses.\n \n2. Assist the Cross-functional Team Member (CTM) with coordinating course offerings, teacher assignments, and instructional minutes.\n \n3. Assist the Cross-functional Team Member (CTM) with overseeing the student schedule to ensure accurate placement in synchronous/asynchronous courses aligned with graduation needs. \n \n4. Supervise and coach staff to strengthen instructional effectiveness and consistency.\n \n5. Monitor student engagement, attendance, and academic progress using data and lead interventions.\n \n6. Coordinate services for special populations, ensuring compliance, supporting teachers with accommodations, and overseeing targeted interventions for students who require specialized support. \n \nILLUSTRATIVE DUTIES CONTINUED\n \n7. Support the Cross-functional Team Member (CTM) with program goals, policy implementation, and overall program operations.\n \n8. Manage daily virtual operations, including schedules, live sessions, and instructional flow.\n \n9. Oversee asynchronous course quality by reviewing pacing, clarity, and teacher communication.\n \n10. Address student behavior and discipline using restorative practices and digital citizenship expectations.\n \n11. Lead staff professional development in virtual instruction and technology tools.\n \n12. Communication regularly with families through meetings and program updates.\n \n13. Work with IT and digital learning teams to support platforms, tools, and troubleshooting,\n \n14. Ensure implementation, program fidelity, and quality assurance of Learning Management Systems and asynchronous instructional platforms (e.g., Canvas), including course pacing, credit alignment, and testing readiness.\n \n15. Develop and oversee virtual student intervention systems, including academic support, counseling coordination, credit recovery monitoring, and escalation protocols for students who are at risk of disengagement.\n \n16. Support phased expansion of grade levels and course offerings by coordinating staffing, scheduling, and operational readiness as enrollment scales.\n \n17. Other duties as assigned.\n \nPOSITION REQUIREMENTS\n \nTYPE OF SKILL AND/OR REQUIRED LICENSING/CERTIFICATION\n \nSoftware\n \nOracle\n \nPeopleSoft \n \nSAP \n \nMicrosoft Office\n \nCertifications/Licensure\n \nValid Texas Principal Certification\n \nEquipment\n \nOffice equipment (e.g., computer, copier)\n \nLEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES\n \nLevel 3-Manages. Accomplishes the majority of work objectives through the management of direct reports. Provides day-to-day directions to staff; may become directly involved, as required, to meet schedules and resolve problems. Responsible for assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring application of policies and procedures. Receives assignments in the form of objectives, with goals and the process by which to meet goals. Provides input to hiring, performance and budget.\n \nWORK COMPLEXITY/INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT\n\n* Work is substantially complex, varied and regularly requires the selection and application of technical and detailed guidelines. Independent judgment is required to identify, select, and apply the most appropriate methods as well as interpret precedent. Position regularly makes recommendations to management on areas of significance to the department. Supervision received typically consists of providing directions on the more complex projects and new job duties and priorities.\n \nBUDGET AUTHORITY\n \nCompiles and organizes data and figures.\n \nAnalyzes and interprets data and figures.\n \nParticipates in a group plan and/or budget development.\n \nEducation\n \nMaster's Degree\n \nExperience\n \n3 to 5 years of exemplary teaching experience\n \nExperience supporting virtual. hybrid, or technology-enhanced learning environments\n \nOther Requirements\n \nPROBLEM SOLVING\n \nDecisions are made on both routine and non-routine matters with some latitude but are still subject to approval. The job occasionally requires recommending new solutions to problems, improving existing methods, or generating new ideas.\n \nIMPACT OF DECISIONS\n \nDecisions have minor, small, and possibly incremental impact on the department or facility. Errors are usually discovered in succeeding operations where most of the work is verified or checked and is normally confined to a single department or phase of the organizational activities resulting in brief inconvenience.\n \nCOMMUNICATION/INTERACTIONS\n \nInformation sharing - gives and receives information such as options, technical direction, instructions, and reporting results. Interactions are mostly with customers, own supervisor, and coworkers in own and other departments.\n \nCUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS\n \nFollows through with customer inquiries, requests, and complaints. Forwards difficult and non-routine inquiries or requests to the appropriate level for resolution.\n \nTakes routine or required customer actions to meet customer needs. Responds promptly and accurately to customer complaints, inquiries and requests for information and coordinates appropriate follow-up. May handle escalated issues passed on from coworkers or subordinates.\n \nWORKING/ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS\n \nWork is normally performed in a typical interior work environment which does not subject the employee to any hazardous or unpleasant elements.\n \nHouston Independent School District is an equal opportunity employer. \n\n